145.30
Credit for military service.

(i)
Army, navy, air force, marine corps,
coast guard, auxiliary corps as established by congress, red cross nurse
serving with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United
States, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, full-time service with the American
red cross in a combat zone, and such other service as may be designated by
congress as included therein;

(ii)
Personnel of the Ohio national guard
and the reserve components of any of the armed forces enumerated in division
(A)(1) of this section who are called to active duty pursuant to an executive
order issued by the president of the United States or an act of
congress;

(iii)
Persons on whom United States
merchant marine veteran status has been conferred for service aboard oceangoing
merchant ships in service to the United States during World War II.

(b)
"State retirement system" means any
of the following: the Ohio police and fire pension fund, public employees
retirement system, school employees retirement system, state highway patrol
retirement system, or the state teachers retirement system.

(2)
This section
applies only to service in the armed forces that occurred prior to October 13,
1994, the date on which the "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 3149,
38 U.S.C.
101 , became a public law.

(B)
Except as
otherwise provided in this division, upon reemployment in the public
service and completion of one year of service credit as covered by a state
retirement system or the Cincinnati retirement system, within two years after
service in the armed forces that is terminated in a manner other than as
described in section 4304 of Title 38 of the United States Code, "Uniformed
Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 3149,
38 U.S.C.A.
4304 , and presentation of documentation of
the service and subject to rules adopted by the retirement board, any member of
the public employees retirement system who was a member with not less than one
year of payroll deductions before entering active duty with the armed forces
and maintained membership in the public employees retirement system as provided
by section 145.41 of the Revised Code, and who
was or is out of active service as a public employee by reason of having become
a member of the armed forces of the United States on active duty or service
shall have such service, not in excess of ten years, included
as prior
military service. Except as
otherwise provided in this division, service in the armed forces as
established by documentation of the service, not in excess of ten years, shall
also be included as prior military service for a person who was a public
employee and who has acquired service credit for five years prior to, and
within the one year preceding, the date of entering on active duty in the armed
forces of the United States if such person was reemployed in the public service
within one year after service in the armed forces that is terminated in a
manner other than as described in section 4304 of Title 38 of the United States
Code, "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994,"
38 U.S.C.A.
4304 , and established total service credit as
defined in section
145.01 of the Revised Code of
twenty years exclusive of credit for service in the uniformed services, as
defined in section
145.302 of the Revised Code. This
division shall not serve to cancel any military service credit earned or
granted prior to November 1, 1965.

If the public employees retirement board adopts a rule
requiring payment for service credit granted under this section, the credit
shall be granted only if payment is made. The rule shall not require payment of
more than the additional liability to the retirement system resulting from
granting the credit. A member may choose to purchase only part of the credit in
any one payment.

(C)
A
member of the public employees retirement system is ineligible to receive
service credit under this section for any year of military service credit used
to obtain service
credit pursuant to section
145.301 or
145.302 of the Revised Code. At the
time such credit is requested, the member shall certify on a form supplied by
the retirement board that the member does and will conform to this requirement.
This division does not cancel any military service credit earned prior to March
15, 1979.